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The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Representatives. (search)
doned Clarksville and were moving everything to Nashville. The Federal troops are preparing for an attack upon Memphis. The capture of Nashville is not conceded. News from Port Royal up to the 17th inst had been received in New York. It was expected that Savannah would fall in a few days. It was reported that the rebel troops were evacuating Manassas. Gen. Halleck has decided not to hang the condemned bridge burners, but will keep them in close confinement. Col. Corcoran and 700 prisoners are expected at Fortress Monroe. The report that Gen. Buckner has been arrested for treason is contradicted. The war in Venezuela continues frightful; and a revolution rages in Honduras. Palmerston has announced in Parliament that the distress in the manufacturing districts will not justify the interference of the Government in raising the blockade of Confederate ports. Captains Taylor, Wallace, and Talcott, Lieutenant Loyal, and Dr. Shepherdson, arr
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Yankee prisoners arrived. (search)
Yankee prisoners arrived. --Colonels C. M. Wilcox, Corcoran, and other Federal prisoners to the number of one hundred, arrived here on Friday from Columbia, South Carolina, and are awaiting transshipment to New port News. They, however, may not start for several weeks to come, as arrangements for sending them away have not yet been perfected. Colonel Wilcox is the officer who acted as Military Governor of Alexandria when it was first occupied by the Federalists.
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
— at least, while the Federal force continue to gain victory after victory, not only weekly but almost daily. Col. Corcoran in a Mist. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia inquirer is somewhat puzzled how to "place" Colonel CorColonel Corcoran, who, we believe, is at present in Richmond: A mystery seems to hang about the whereabouts and condition of Colonel Corcoran, against whom the rebels appear to have a peculiar spite. Colonel Wood and Colonel Cogswell both are represented Colonel Corcoran, against whom the rebels appear to have a peculiar spite. Colonel Wood and Colonel Cogswell both are represented as saying that they had conversations with prisoners from Charleston, who said they had not seen him for several days previous to their quitting that place, and inferred therefrom that he had either been removed to another prison or been sent further South. Though it is well understood here that the President has made especial exertions to procure the exchange of Colonel Corcoran, yet it is equally well understood that the rebel authorities will consent to give him up only on condition that Smi
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Note of the War (search)
urg Express contains the following account of the adventures of Col. Corcoran and his companions, while spending a day in that city: The Early in the day information was carried to the Mayor that Col Corcoran had been seen to enter the store of Messrs. Scott & Harrison, on She excitement or the crowd became very high near the store, and Col. Corcoran was led out through the back entrance of the building and condure under guard. Mr. Delaney stated to the Mayor that he had known Corcoran intimately in Ireland and in New York; that Corcoran was well acquCorcoran was well acquainted with his family, and since he had no communication with them for months past, he had merely invited him (Corcoran) into the store to reCorcoran) into the store to receive and bear to them a friendly letter which he had written for the purpose. He further stated that he had said nothing that would result i true to the South. The letter being in the possession of Colonel Corcoran, a messenger was sent to request his presence before the Mayor
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
in Memphis on the 19th ult by a barkeeper named Prosberry. Paul Gentil has been arrested in Memphis for a murder committed in New Orleans seven years ago. The Memphis Appeal states positively that Columbus is not to be evacuated, and will not be, unless at the point of the bayonet. The New York journals submit to Secretary Stanton's rescript against the publication of military movements with a bad grace. Extensive preparations have been on foot in New York to receive Col. Corcoran, and they "wonder why he don't come." Measures are progressing in the Federal Congress to abolish slavery in Maryland and Delaware. Late advices from the Western coast of Africa represent the slave trade as exceedingly active. Six of the Yankee prisoners that lately escaped from jail at Columbia, S. C., have been recaptured. Col. John F. Cushman, of Oxford, Miss., died suddenly a few days ago. Wm. Brown and Wm. Cassidy have been hanged in New Orleans for murder.
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Demurrer overruled. (search)
sent him, to administer to the sick Yankees, merely because that by some mistake he appeared in the Northern papers as an Union man. Now, such may seem impossible, but it is so, and can be substantiated. Union sentiment in Richmond. It will be gratifying to those who have prisoner friends in the South to know that they will be North shortly, an order having been issued to that effect the night before our departure. I expect by the time this letter reaches you the brave and gallant Corcoran, of the Sixty-ninth New York, will be among us. Of the Union sentiment of Richmond I shall say nothing, except that the Government of the United States is well represented by men who are not only willing to risk their lives, but also to give their thousands of dollars, to uphold the only free Government that ever existed. The fortifications. The fortifications of Richmond, I learned, were seventeen in number, and none were armed and manned except one on the eastern side, which
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North (search)
In the Federal House, on the 24th, resolutions were offered and referred, proposing a vote of thanks to Gen. Burnside and Commander Rowan, and their officers and men, for their victories in North Carolina, and to Lt. Geo. U. Morris and the officers and men under him, for their gallant conduct in the encounter with the Merrimac. A bill was introduced "to make freedom general and slavery sectional;" and a resolution was offered requesting the suspension of exchanges of prisoners until Col. Corcoran, now held at Richmond, is released, and asking the Secretary of War for the reasons for his detention. The Committee of Ways and Means was instructed to inquire into the expediency of Government working the Western mines, in order to defray the expenses of the war. The Tax bill was further considered, and so amended as to fix the license of breweries manufacturing less than five hundred barrels per annum, at twenty-five dollars. In the Senate, resolutions of several State Legislatu
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Norfolk. (search)
The Hospital department, in charge of Surgeon Higgin botham, is well arranged, and every care has been taken to have on hand the articles necessary to remove the bodily ailments of the sick. If the Doctor succeeds in keeping alive the man who jumped from the third story of the building, a few days since, and literally broke himself 10 pieces, he will have accomplished a feat that any son of Galen might be proud of. The injured party alluded to, we learned on Saturday by inquiry, could say with Webster, "I still live." It is understood that amongst the Yankee officers in the prison in charge of Lieut. Turner is the somewhat notorious, and always irascible, Col. Corcoran, of the 69th. How this redoubtable champion of Lincolnism stands his detention here, we have no means of knowing, he and his compeers being, by special orders, sealed books to all outsiders. The prison is guarded by two companies, who are quartered in the buildings, and of whom thirty men are on duty at one time.
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $25 reward (search)
els at Richmond? Although the rebel prisoners in exchange for him and others of our brave soldiers were long since sent to Norfolk, in accordance with an agreement between Gen. Wool on our part and Gen. Cobb. on the part of the rebels, the latter have broken their faith, and our soldiers are kept in the filthy prisons of Richmond, and with so much rigor treated that a citizen who if not charged even with any sympathy for the Union cause, but merely because he had some acquaintance with Col. Corcoran years before, and showed some slight attention to him, has been seized and imprisoned for this, the slightest display of humanity. If this conduct is not sufficient to make the blood boil in the heart of every loyal citizen, then let him read the account of the treatment of Union men in Tennessee, as shown by that venerable moral hero. Person Brownlow, and then let them say to our Government, no longer permit as to be insulted by such displays as are being exhibited in our midst. As t
The Daily Dispatch: April 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Still later. (search)
ls Gatlin and Branch, who commanded the enemy previous to the fight here, have been arrested by order of the authorities at Richmond, and are now in con- finement at Goldsborough, awaiting trial by court martial. They are charged with cowardice upon that and previous occasions. The rebel prisoners, now in our hands, numbering about one hundred and fifty, including Col. Avery, are to be sent North in a few days, under the recent order of the War Department to release no prisoners until Col. Corcoran is set at liberty. They are on board the transport Cossace, Capt. J. W. Bennett. Another letter of the same date, from Beaufort, N. C., says: The restrictions of Secretary of War Stanton's order prohibit me from giving any detailed account of the movements of our forces at this point. Suffice it to say, that the investment of Fort Macon is rapidly progressing, and that ere these lines are spread before your readers our shells will be bursting around the rebel flag, which st
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